CYF review ordered after mother convicted of child neglectDAVID WHITE/FAIRFAX NZ Tala Pita, who has been convicted of wilful neglect of her children. "In 2015 when the children were found neglected home alone, they immediately came into CYF care and the mother was charged." READ MORE:* Man jailed for child neglect says he was wrongly convicted* Parents of baby with broken arms sentenced for child neglect* Man charged with neglect after boy, 11, allegedly drove car near Wanaka* Mother sentenced for wilfully neglecting children, who ate rotten bread to surviveThe children's mother, Tala Pita, 33, was sentenced at the Manukau District Court on Friday morning for five charges of wilful neglect. SIMON MAUDE/FAIRFAX NZ The Manurewa home where Tala Pita left her children home alone with little to eat. ​Tolley said she would expect CYF "to review whether everything that could have been done was done for this family".

Source: Stuff March 03, 2017 04:45 UTC